Aimee Volkovsky and Dean Stanton live in Bendigo; between them they have racked up many 'flying hours' performing in live venues and around Australia.

Aimee regularly performs solo in Melbourne and with her new band, while Dean (also an inventor) has played for many years in bands and as a solo artist, having honed his performance skills as a busker on streets from Bendigo to Byron.

This morning on ABC Victoria Saturday Breakfast, Megan Spencer invited Aimee and Dean to play a special live duet of Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind.

She'd seen them perform the song in Bendigo last year on Valentine's Day and couldn't get their version out of her head!

As Aimee and Dean told Megan, it was a song they sang over and over again when they were stranded once in a small country town in regional NSW.

Singing it helped them get through the stress of a a busted radiator and the boredom of being stuck for days in a place far from home...

The Victorian Seniors Festival 2014 is officially underway, with a range of activities planned for the month.

With the theme of this year's festival being Taking Good Care of Yourself, there's everything from old time dances, cricket matches, social walks, and tai chi being offered to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Barry Lacey is a 65 year old Central Victorian, who along with being the founder of the Newstead Men's Shed is also a teacher and devotee of the Chinese martial art tai chi.

Saturday Breakfast presenter Anne-Marie Middlemast met up with Barry at the launch of the Victorian Seniors Festival program in Castlemaine, to find out more about its benefits.

Sarah Robinson is the division director for Macquarie Private Health. This morning her topic was 'Share Portfolio Strategy and Outlook'. Sarah said returns from the Australian share market have been very good over the last 12 months. Have a listen to this morning's segment including talkback calls:

Today is National Threatened Species Day - Landscape Architect, ANDREW LAIDLAW, talked about some of the Victorian collection the Royal Botanic Gardens has been keeping in recent years.

We also featured one of the Open Gardens, open to the public this weekend, Southdown at 7 Yal Yal Rd, Merricks. It is a plantsmans garden and a treasure trove of interesting species with spectacular views across Westernport to Phillip Island.

The garden was started by the current owner's parents, in 1975. From a completely bare four-acre paddock, with wonderful views across Westernport Bay, the past and present owners have transformed this blank canvass into a wonderful garden. The mature native and exotic trees planted in the early years are the main feature of the garden and form its backbone. Newer plantings compliment the original garden.

This garden was one of the original gardens open under the 'Open Garden Scheme' and has matured and changed greatly since then.

One of the main criteria in replacing plants has been to make sure that the views are not lost. The Eucalyptus nicholii at the bottom of the main lawn is given a regular haircut and the camellias at the front of the house are kept low.

In early spring natives including boronias and wattles join the flowers of camellias, magnolias, crabapples, bulbs and hellebores. Southdown holds the Garden Plant Conservation Association of Australia collection of cistus or rock roses, and these are also starting to flower.

Southdown will be open between 10am and 4.30pm on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September. Entry: $7.00. Children under 18 are admitted free. The local Red Cross will be serving food and refreshments. Plants will also be for sale.

Driving on Victoria's roads this weekend? Kangaroos and wildlife can be a worry, especially if you find yourself on the roads in low light.

Today on Saturday Breakfast, Megan Spencer spoke with Mal Kersting (VicRoads Regional Director for the Northern Region), about how to stay safe on the roads, when roos are around. Dusk and dawn are often the danger times for roos and wildlife on regional roads in Victoria.

Here are some safety tips:

Slow down!

Try not to swerve

Try not to vary your driving tooradically

Be vigilant

Take note of the phone numbers on road signs in case you need to report injured wildlife.

After successive interest rate cuts, and new suburbs announced for Melbourne's outskirts, what is the outlook for the property market, and will these factors, and others, kickstart sluggish market sentiment in the short to medium term? Libbi Gorr speaks with Monique Sasson Wakelin.

After a tumultuous week on global financial markets, including in Australia. Libbi Gorr discusses investment strategies with Doug Turek, Managing director and principal advisor Professional Wealth.

With so much uncertainty plaguing the markets, Turek explains that some investments, including in cash or gold, have retained their value while many others lost any gains made this year. Libbi first asked him what happened this week to cause such losses.

The sad passing of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak this month prompted our children's literature expert Sarah Mayor Cox to talk about his life and work, best known of course for 'Where the Wild Things Are', on our fortnightly kid's books discussion.

And because Mother's Day was coming up, we also took a look at some great books about or for Mums:

Open 10am-4.30pm on Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 March at an entry fee of $6.00.

Children under 18 are admitted free.

Basic Information from Open Gardens Australia

Bonolea at 15 Mildura Way (Calder Hwy), Charlton is a two-acre tranquil Mediterranean-style garden surrounding an early Victorian house. The garden is designed to be productive as well as ornamental.

Pine Groves at 18 Marmal North Rd, Charlton was reasonably protected from the floodwaters, however getting in & out of their property was difficult for a number of weeks as the flooded roads cut the garden owners off from the township.

St Helier at 55 Burton Ave, Kyneton is a one and a half acre informal garden surrounding one of Kyneton's oldest cottages; originally an 1860’s bluestone inn on the Goldfields route.

A quick note of thanks to everyone who came down to Cruden Farm last week. We had a ball (despite the rain) and are very appreciative of the support from Open Gardens Australia.

A stunning vista greets anyone strolling up the main driveway of Cruden Farms.

Lemon eucalypts line the cravel road extending to a beautiful white timber homestead bought, along with the farm, by Sir Keith Murdoch for his 19 year old bride Dame Elizabeth.

This morning Libbi Gorr hosted Saturdays from the farm's grounds during one of few open days Open Gardens Australia holds here each year.

From the picking garden to the wall garden to the stables to the lake, each area holds histories of the Murdoch family, the changing environment, sculpture and contributions from gardeners for over 80 years.

Here's the start of the show with Libbi speaking to Richard Barley, CEO of Open Gardens Australia, if you missed it.

- Caroline Blackman, regular on Saturdays, horticulturalist and landscape designer, speaking about the history and characteristics of Cruden Farm

- Mary Klestadt, event manager of Open Gardens Australia, speaking about the other events held around Victoria across the year

- Tamie Fraser, president of Open Gardens Australia and wife of former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, speaking about the significance of Cruden Farm and in particular Dame Elizabeth Murdoch's continued enthusiasm for gardening.

- Dr Hugh Wirth, president of the RSPCA speaking about pets in the garden.

We'd love to see your photos from visits to Cruden Farm. You can email them to 774@your.abc.net.au with the subject line "Cruden Farm Saturday".

There two completely different shows and we're going to keep them that way. Saturday isn't Sunday and Sunday isn't Saturday. You can look forward to all the regular segments on the show like finance, health and fitness, DIY and pets with Dr Hugh Wirth.

Unfortunately by now the festival has finished (8 AM to 1 PM). However! If you want the info you can view it here.

Also, the Sustainable Living Festival is on at Fed Square for the whole day... might be another option if you can wrangle the family into the city...?

Sunfest (18 March, 2012)

One for the calendar, Sunfest is the largest regional Sunbury festival.

Find it at the Sunbury Village Green, O'Shannasy Street, Sunbury.

Finance - superannuation focus.

Heather Gray at DLA Piper chats to Libbi and callers about superannuation issues. Hear the full interview with Heather here (http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/02/18/3433968.htm)

The Husbands (AKA DIY)

We're not all building one week and painting the next so why should we restrict ourselves to one DIY topic? The Husbands are trade professionals from a range of backgrounds that operate like a panel. A very helpful panel that you can call on to make the renos a little easier.

Don't forget we're going to be at the Cruden Farm open day on March 3, 2012.

Thanks to everyone who called in with their book recommendations on our Saturday morning program, and congratulations to all of those callers who won a family pass to the Madhatters tea party next Sunday at 11am at the State Library of Victoria – Forecourt and Queens Hall.

774's Richelle Hunt and Simon Brown will be in attendance, looking like this.

Sunscreen: Some sunscreens contain ingredients known as Nano Particles. Some groups have concerns about this ingredient, and not for profit group Friends of the Earth has established a website identifying which products do and do not contain nano particles.

The Essay, Damon Young, Philosopher and Essay enthusiast. To find out more about the course he's running a Year of the Essay series of writing workshops at the Victorian Writer's Centre, head to their website for more information.